Radio’s Star Still Bright – Timor-Leste
Search Radio Programs In many developing countries, radio remains the best medium to reach the largest and most comprehensive audience. It remains a low-cost way of reaching people even in more remote and rural areas. Search employs radio as a tool for peace building in programs around the world. We’re showcasing just a few:
Timor-Leste
Training group
Timor-Leste is one of our newest programs, but has already hit the ground running As part of its Youth Radio for Peace Building program, Search for Common Ground facilitated a Common Ground Radio Training Workshop in July, at the National University of Timor-Leste.
It brought together 35 young professional journalists and radio presenters working at community radio stations across all 13 of Timor-Leste’s districts. They participated in a ‘Common Ground’ radio training, using SFCG’s ‘Radio for Peacebuilding’ and ‘Radio Talk Shows for Peacebuilding’ guidebooks and methodology. Staff from the Timor-Leste Media Development Centre (TLMDC), SFCG’s radio production partner, also participated.
This training was followed by a two-day National Youth Forum – for youth, by youth, and about youth – which brought together nearly 90 Timorese youth leaders during, on the occasion of International Youth Day. At the Forum, youth participants identified constructive solutions to shared challenges and developed strong networks to help them coordinate and work together on the issues affecting them. The issues discussed will serve as the core radio curriculum that is being developed by SFCG.
The radio magazine program Babadok Rebenta! (“Drums of Peace”) will begin broadcasting this fall, and will include interactive talk shows held at more than 15 community radio stations nationwide. Finally, the Youth Forum, which was opened by the Vice Prime Minister, the Secretary of State for Youth and Sports, and the Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General (SRSG) for Timor-Leste, served to inform key stakeholders in government and civil society about youth aspirations and challenges, and to assist the development of youth peacebuilding strategies in Timor-Leste.
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I have worked as an activist for 35 years and I am about to leave to do a lecture tour and launch of my book The Circle of Silence which is about Timor Leste’s brave struggle and victory. The book tour is in The Netherlands.
I am the wife of one of the Balibo Five and I would like to offer you a radio talk I did in Melbourne which may be of use to you.
Shirley Shackleton
Please reply as I want to offer you a radio interview I did about Timor Leste in Melbourne.
Shirley Shackleton
Hi Shirely, I’ve just sent you an email. Let me know if you don’t recieve it. I would be very interested in your interview and in speaking further with you about your book!
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~Sydney
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